Hoorah! I planted hemp agrimony two years ago in the wild area of our Abbotsbury garden hoping to attract Jersey tigers & this is one of three! @SightingDOR @ DorsetBirdClub

Hoorah! I was working away this week. Return for a dog walk to be welcomed by my first swifts of the year in Abbotsbury Are they back @wellingtonsch1? @DorsetBirdClub @WriterHannahBT

An Abbotsbury first for me this morning: grasshopper warbler singing its heart out. Alongside whitethroats, Cetti’s, blackcaps & chiffchaff on the railway track. The area cleared & replanted is really alive. @SwannerySteve @DorsetBirdClub

Greys have their winter beauty and when sound accompanies sight they are intensified: the lark ascends and knows that changing light means spring is nearing. @DorsetBirdClub @SwannerySteve @DorsetWildlife

Not the best photo & you may need to zoom: approx 50-60 cattle egret adjacent to the Abbotsbury Portesham Railway path. I was thrilled to see half a dozen last year. ⁦@SwannerySteve⁩ ⁦@DorsetBirdClub⁩ ⁦@DorsetWildlife⁩

When cleaning a clock becomes performance art!

Defying habitat expectations: a distant brown hare peacefully taking in the sea view on Abbotsbury beach this morning! @SightingDOR @DorsetWildlife @SwannerySteve

Congratulations to Will Barnicoat adding European u23 5000m bronze to his European Cross Country gold. Awesome performance @OldCranleighans @NorthHouseCran

A brilliant account of VE Day at Cranleigh @BSAboarding @HMC_Org

Happy national dawn chorus day from Abbotsbury @DorsetBirdClub @Hawkandowluk @Natures_Voice @CranleighEco @SwannerySteve & thankfully no Empire stormtroopers were awake!

My first swift of the year in Abbotsbury this afternoon. Joy! @SwannerySteve @WriterHannahBT @DorsetBirdClub

Lovely to wake to the call of a cuckoo this morning and it’s been going on and off for the last couple of hours. @swannerySteve it’s the first I have heard in Abbotsbury in the last eight years but I have not been here in late April and May until now. Are they an annual visitor?

Love my Abbotsbury garden in spring. Listen only for 10 minutes: blue & great tit, blackbird, robin, willow warb, black cap, chiffchaff, gold crest, gspot & green woodpecker, pheasant, collared dove, wood pigeon, Canada goose, wren,sparrow, jackdaw @DorsetBirdClub @SwannerySteve

Amanda and I loving watching @CranleighschRU live stream at the @RPNS7s & especially a fabulous hat trick from Alex W against Berko: ‘the big boomer on the ding a ling’ to quote the commentator! All the best for the rest of the competition gents.

A spring birdsong crescendo walk up to Abbotsbury Hill Fort: blackbird, green woodpecker, great & blue tit, dunnock, linnet, skylark, yellowhammer & best of all, dartford warbler atop the gorse by the beacon. @SwannerySteve @DorsetBirdClub